On March 19th, 1982, a joyride went horribly wrong, and the music world lost one of the most explosive players to ever pick up a guitar, Randy Rhoads. A small prop plane carrying Rhoads, Rachel Youngblood and pilot Andrew Aycock crashed in the morning. We may have lost a singular talent that morning in 1982, but thanks to the impact of his playing, the echoes of his innovative body of work became a part of the fabric of heavy metal itself .

In early 2017, the Gibson Custom Shop made a handful of these “True Historic” reissue Les Pauls before the company went belly up and cancelled the product line. This is one of those guitars, an extremely rare 2017 Les Paul ‘58 reissue “True Historic”